President Obama is taking action to launch My Brother’s Keeper – a new initiative to help every boy and young man of color who is willing to do the hard work to get ahead. For decades, opportunity has lagged behind for boys and young men of color. But across the country, communities are adopting approaches to help put these boys and young men on the path to success. The President wants to build on that work. We can learn from communities that are partnering with local businesses and foundations to connect these boys and young men to mentoring, support networks, and skills they need to find a good job or go to college and work their way up into the middle class. And the Administration will do its part by helping to identify and promote programs that work.

That starts by using proven tools that expand opportunity at key moments in the lives of these young people. The President believes this includes ensuring access to basic health, nutrition, and to high-quality early education to get these kids reading and ready for school at the youngest age. But that’s not enough. We need to partner with communities and police to reduce violence and make our classrooms and streets safer. And we need to help these young men stay in school and find a good job– so they have the opportunity to reach their full potential, contribute to their communities and build decent lives for themselves and their families.
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Absolutely! Only president ever to address everything! But maybe Michelle should’ve done this or maybe he could’ve introduced a secondary speaker.. someone who could be more subjective! Whites are upping the stakes out here.. we can know longer just work harder and ignore, something needs to be done! Theres a black guy in the news right now who was set to do 5yrs in prison after the whites accused him of something he didn’t do, the police basically lied and never turned in the 3rd dash cam video.. it finally surfaced and now all charges have been dropped! we can’t ignore that.. The dudes name is Marcus Jeter if u wanna look it up

02.28.14 at 11:35 pm

Miles

No knocks on the prezzy but when you take away the hoopla what does this program actually mean/contribute/do/help with? FAR too vague to be making this kind of noise. Will there be funds set aside for men of color to start businesses? Advanced STEM training? While I’m happy to see vocal support, I’m gonna need to see the receipts before any more praise is given.